OS Alston & Weardale 1925 Greenhurth & Eden
Access high resolution at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ordnance_Survey_Alston_%2... . This is a VITAL piece of the 1925 Alston Moor map which the Richard Davenport-Hines bibliography p249 confirms Auden had. The area centre and right is the exact location of The Secret Agent of 1928, On the left is the Pennine Fault and the scarp above the Eden Valley "From which original address man faulted into consciouness" (New Year Letter 1940). In my verdict one of the most incredible lines written in English in the 20th century. And as The Secret Agent says "But who would get it?".
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OS Alston & Weardale 1925 Greenhurth & Eden
Access high resolution at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ordnance_Survey_Alston_%2... . This is a VITAL piece of the 1925 Alston Moor map which the Richard Davenport-Hines bibliography p249 confirms Auden had. The area centre and right is the exact location of The Secret Agent of 1928, On the left is the Pennine Fault and the scarp above the Eden Valley "From which original address man faulted into consciouness" (New Year Letter 1940). In my verdict one of the most incredible lines written in English in the 20th century. And as The Secret Agent says "But who would get it?".